Kompatibilnost liberalnog i demokratskog načela s parlamentarizmom
The Compatibility of the Liberal and the Democratic Principles with Parliamentarism

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the liberal and the democratic principles of government constitution and their functioning within the parliamentary framework. According to the author, the liberal principle has always been bound to parliamentarism. The democratic principle, however, particularly in the form of democratic despotism, is a fervent opponent of parliamentarism. The author rejects Schmitt’s concept of parliamentarism and like Troeltsch emphasizes the natural right as the spiritual foundation of parliamentarism. Finally, the author points to the absence of the liberal principle in the post-war development of Yugoslavia and talks about the painstaking process of coming to terms with that principle in presentday Croatia.

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